Schools – Artivity

Last week we ran three days of workshops, which was a lovely way to launch classes in the studio! On Monday 22nd August there was a workshop based on Ellie’s picture book, Follow Me, and a ceramic painting class. We even had some two year old artists joining in with the creativity!

On Tuesday 23rd August it was the turn of Ellie’s picture book Copycat Bear, plus some fabulous printmaking.

Finally on Wednesday 24th August we designed some lovely birds based on Ellie’s first book, Birdsong, and then visiting artist Craig Pattrick showed us how to create our own plasticine characters.

You can see some of Craig’s work on his website, Craig Pattrick Illustration

A big thank you to all the young artists who participated in our summer workshops- we look forward to seeing you again some time!

Ellie really enjoyed her visit to Stepping Stones Day Nursery in Dogsthorpe on 28th June, to run workshops with two of the classes.

The first class took part in a workshop called ‘Magic Dice’. They created monster characters by throwing dice to determine how many eyes to add to their monster shape, how many arms, and so on. After each body part was added, the pictures were passed around the circle so that every child added something to each picture. We made some brilliant monsters!

The second class worked on a large scale collaborative painting, called ‘A Field of Flowers’. Each participant had their own pot of paint, and followed Ellie’s instructions to ‘draw a dot’, ‘draw a circle’, ‘draw an even bigger circle!’ Children were encouraged to move to a different spot on the painting after each instruction and, lots of dots, circles and splodges later, our vibrant field of flowers was finished.